Musician Dystonia: Piano exercises
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Laurent Boullet explains what is Dystonia, its consequences for musicians, and presents techniques and exercises to correct it.
Musician Dystonia: Piano exercises
Laurent Boullet, the piano physiologist tells us about a disease musicians may meet in their path: the dystonia. It is characterized by the loss of control of movements on one part of the body; usually the hands for the musicians. It leads to an uncontrolled way of playing.
In this particular course, Laurent helps us to understand what is dystonia and presents various techniques and exercises to correct it.
LESSON PRESENTATION
The main concepts taught
Definition of Dystonia
Double Scapement System
Compensation Patterns
Isolation of Fingers
The program proposed by Laurent Boullet
This course is about musician dystonia and Laurent Boullet, a piano physiologist explains you notions related to dystonia: the deprogrammation, redressement and reprogrammation. The fingering and hands exercises will help you to stabilize and control your movements.
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Chapter |
Notions |
Deprogrammation |
In this first chapter, Laurent tells us more about the definition of dystonia and the phase of deprogrammation. He also explains the mechanisms of it, and gives fingering exercises who consists of isolating fingers. After that, Laurent gives advices and exercices to try to correct fingers with compensation patterns. |
Reprogrammation |
In this second phase, Laurent talks about the reprogrammation and its consequences. |
Focal Dystonia |
This last chapter deals with the double scapement system, the overlapping, and several exercices. |
A word from your teacher
Laurent Boullet thinks that it’s important to display “normal” lessons. So it could be interesting for all people, not only teachers but also students, to see the common problems that we may meet on the daily basis. We will concentrate on some difficulties and he’d like to give some comments. You organize your movements in your head mentally before you do it. When it’s mentally clear, you can do your motion much faster.
